Pretty well the first lines spoken in the movie are so vile with
profanities that I almost turned off the DVD right then. I didn't have
much hope that the rest of the movie was going to have any intelligent
dialogue. I persevered, though, and generally enjoyed the story.

The characters are believable, the storyline interesting, the
cinematography average, the performances are good, but the dialogue is
annoyingly mostly swearing.

I'm not against swearing in general and am open minded about it (I
swear all the time). Swearing has its place for emphasis and can fit in
with a story and character occasionally. When a script is this full of
swearing, though, it is just too much. I guess the writers figured that
they would lose the interest of some of the audience if they didn't
have obscenities yelled every other line. To me, it just seemed
pointlessly crass and over-the-top.

If the language had been toned down to more normal/real/average levels,
I would have rated this movie much higher.

2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:No valid science, 18 May 2009

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I watched this movie prepared to see some incorrect science for the
sake of entertainment, but what I saw was NO correct science. Well,
except for the part where absolute zero is -273 Celsius. That's the
only thing they did get right.

The fact that almost all the characters repeatedly say, "Science is
never wrong", when the science in this movie is always wrong, must be a
joke the writers played on the producers.

The whole premise of this movie is that the Earth's magnetic field
rotates 90 degrees in less than 5 hours, and this causes everything at
the equator to cool down to -273 Celsius (absolute zero). That makes as
much scientific sense as your dog freezing solid because he turned
around counter-clockwise before lying down, instead of clockwise.

The "scientists" in the movie even did a small-scale demonstration of
this (before the disaster), by artificially rotating the magnetic field
of a room full of plants. The whole room and the plants in it reached
-273 Celsius. Rubbish.

All the other science in this movie that follows and supports this idea
is either flawed, or outright wrong. They even got wrong the conversion
of temperatures between Celsius and Fahrenheit on the status display
they kept showing.

Not only is the science wrong in this movie, but there is a lack of
internal consistency in the movie. For example, it's -170 Celsius
outside, but people in a glass-walled building are wearing summer
clothes and are not cold. It was previously established that a blast of
cold air from the sky will freeze solid everything in an area, but a
similar blast only freezes a vehicle and its driver, but not the little
girl standing a few metres from the blast. The people in bikinis around
a Miami pool don't notice anything wrong until it starts snowing,
despite a temperature drop of 30 Celsius before the snow started
falling.

The characters are all clichés, and even taking that into account, they
sometimes do things that don't make common sense.

Yeah, I watched the movie for it's entertainment value. For the
disaster. I'm used to suspending disbelief, and going with the flow of
a movie in order to enjoy it. When a movie lacks internal consistency
and basic common sense, that's just too much BAD for me.

3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:Interesting show, but will it survive now?, 15 March 2003

I have been a big fan of "The District". It may not be as hard-hitting as
other cop shows, but that is one of the things I like about it. It has an
interesting balance between policy and personality. The characters are
interesting and likable. I look forward to seeing the characters each
week.

With the death of Lynne Thigpen (Ella Farmer), I wonder if the show can
survive? Her character was a big part of why I liked the
show.

OK movie, but could have been better. Only minor spoils., 6 September 2000

I liked the movie, and I certainly think it is much better than the
previous
3 movies, but not as good as the TV series was.

I would not recommend this movie to people who had not watched the TV
series. This movie contains characters from the TV series who are not
explained in the movie. Also, this movie conforms to the Highlander
universe as shown in the TV series, which is a good thing, considering that
the first 3 Highlander movies had so many inconsistencies. To someone who
had not seen the TV series, this movie would be confusing.

Adrian Paul shows off his fighting skills very well in the fight with the
chinese master. Since this actor had great skill also, we had a very good
view of the fight. Unfortunately, almost all of Paul's other fight scenes
were with much less skilled actors/stuntmen, so the filming and editing had
to make up for this with closeups that make things look more confusing and
faster than they really are.

That is a pet peeve of mine in movies. Make up for the lack of skill or
special effects by filming too close up, and editing it too look like
events
are more complicated and confusing than they really are. Gladiator was one
of the worst in this respect.

The final fight scene is the only one, really, where we get to see the head
villan in action. The actor is clearly not very good at swordplay, so the
best moves are when you can't see his face (thus a stuntman). Even then,
you find it hard to believe that the character (Kell), had the skill to
defeat so many Immortals before. We know that Duncan is a much better
swordsman, but it doesn't appear that way in the fight.

I know that it was important to show that Connor was more experienced and
world-weary than Duncan, but I think that Duncan appeared to be more
juvenile, young, and head-strong than he did in the TV
series.

The editing of this movie left me feeling a bit disoriented. The
flashbacks
were important, as they were in the TV series, but in the movie, they
seemed
to break up the flow of the story too much. I think that the positioning
of
each flashback in the movie was a little too late. Things would have been
much more clear to the audience if each flashback had occurred earlier in
the movie.

Somehow, Adrian Paul did not appear to have as much "presence" in this
movie
as he did in the TV series. Since he IS a good actor, I must conclude that
the editing reduced the impact of his performance.